Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:43:29 -0400 Received: from windlord.Stanford.EDU ([171.64.13.23]:170 "HELO windlord.stanford.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:43:29 -0400 To: Zack Weinberg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks) References: In-Reply-To: (Zack Weinberg's message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:23:34 GMT") From: Russ Allbery Organization: The Eyrie Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:46:20 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 551 Lines: 9 Zack Weinberg writes: > Consider: There is no guarantee that close will detect errors. Only > NFS and Coda implement f_op->flush methods. And AFS, I believe. (Not in the standard kernel, of course.) -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/